The delivery and launch date for the Pentagon's newest early warning satellite system, made by Lockheed Martin Corp., has slipped another year, partly because of suspect workmanship on components, the Air Force said. The delay to early 2011 from this December marks at least the fifth time since th...
The Pacific Tsunami Museum is celebrating its 11th Anniversary. Hilo Bay Web Camera This camera is showing a live video stream of Hilo Bay from the rooftop of the Pacific Tsunami Museum. See more
A magnitude15.7 supernova, 2009jg, was discovered on the 22nd September, 2009, by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS), in an anonymous galaxy in the constellation Ophiuchus. The supernova is located 0.3" west and 3.5" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is...
The Stephen F. Austin Planetarium provides exciting and educational field trip opportunities for students. Two Small Pieces of Glass plays on Fridays at 7 pm, September 11 - October 16 Admission: $2 each Read more
Yesterday afternoon, near 19, the inhabitants of Mendoza, La Pampa, San Luis, and Cordoba saw a meteorite coming down the sky. It finally desintegrated with a loud explosion before it hit the earth. The object, which initially scared the residents, was seen yesterday in the General Alvear Depart...
The first Atlas V hardware is being transported from Denver Colorado to Decatur today. Once that delivery is finished Decatur will be the production home for both the Atlas and Delta rockets. Read more
The Sky-Watcher Dobsonian Telescope 203mm/1200mm (8") hase a "paraboloidal" primary mirror to eliminate spherical aberration and a four-arm, secondary- mirror bracket with fine supports (0.5mm thick), to reduce diffraction spikes and light loss. In addition, this model in...
Title: The radio lightcurve of SN 2008iz in M82 revealed by Urumqi observations Authors: N. Marchili, I. Marti-Vidal, A. Brunthaler, T.P. Krichbaum, P. Mueller, X. Liu, H.-G. Song, U. Bach, R. Beswick, J.A. Zensus We report on a set of 5 GHz Urumqi observations of the galaxy M82, made between August...
Fifth Edition of Astronomical Competition Launched
ESO and the European Association for Astronomy Education are launching today the 2007 edition of 'Catch a Star!', their international astronomy competition for school students. Now in its fifth year, the competition offers students the ch...
Orbital elements: P/2009 S2 (McNaught) T 2009 June 23.6201 TT MPC q 2.203599 (2000.0) P Q n 0.1160966 Peri. 230.3660 +0.9110208 +0.0739095 a 4.161561 Node 121.6146 -0.0267902 +0.9923362 e 0.470488 Incl. 28.4493 -0.4114892 +0.0990262 P 8.49 From 35 observations 2009 Aug. 3-Sept. 24. [url=http:...
Orbital elements: P/2009 Q1 (Hill) T 2009 July 19.299 TT MPC q 2.84860 (2000.0) P Q n 0.075855 Peri. 162.358 +0.916898 +0.398198 a 5.52688 Node 173.964 -0.390208 +0.908639 e 0.48459 Incl. 14.964 -0.083884 +0.125752 P 13.0 From 49 observations 2009 Aug. 16-29. [url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/...
The US Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has generated its first neutrons.
Research conducted at the SNS will lay the groundwork for the next generation of materials research. Scientists believe that the greatly improved ability t...
Orbital elements: 2009 SD229 Earth MOID = 0.2228 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 1.73605 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26705757 Peri. 183.12504 +0.65020273 +0.75139252 a 2.3881748 Node 127.46477 -0.69395859 +0.64760089 e 0.4816304 Incl. 8.14491 -0.30928609 +0.12657948 P 3.69 H 19.0 G 0.15 U 9 [...
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